Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Group

Job Description

About Us 

HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over ~4500 midsize and multinational companies and over 1 Million users. Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.

Come and be you with us 

Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.  

Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren’t the only factor. If you don’t have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we’d still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

Core Technical Expertise

• 6 years of experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on backend development.

• Strong command of a backend language (Java/Kotlin/Go/Python) and its runtime (GC, threading, memory).

• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networking, and OS basics.

Concurrency & Distributed Systems

• Hands-on experience with concurrency, multithreading, and async patterns.

• Proven ability to profile and debug concurrency issues (race conditions, deadlocks, starvation).

• Solid understanding of distributed system concepts: consistency, resilience, and service-to-service communication.

API & Abstraction Design

• Ability to design clean, stable, and ergonomic APIs.

• Experience building reusable, versioned, and backward-compatible internal libraries/frameworks.

Platform Engineering & Reusability

• Experience building internal libraries, frameworks, or SDKs consumed by multiple teams.

• Strong ability to design scalable abstractions that balance flexibility and simplicity.

Database & Storage

• Strong practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), indexing, and query optimization.

• Familiarity with distributed storage/message systems (Redis, Kafka, Elastic/OpenSearch).

• Understanding of consistency models, failure modes, and data distribution strategies.

Scale & Performance

• Experience designing and operating systems at scale (high throughput, low latency, multi-tenant).

• Skilled in performance optimization, profiling, and bottleneck identification.

• Knowledge of scaling strategies (sharding, partitioning, caching tiers).
  
  

We believe that modern developers leverage state-of-the-art dev tools to maximize engineering efficiency. 

The ideal candidate is experienced with AI-assisted development workflows, leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar LLM-based environments to rapidly prototype, debug, and evolve complex systems. 

You should be comfortable translating ambiguous problem statements into iterative prompts, guiding AI agents to generate high-quality, maintainable code while applying strong engineering judgment. The role requires an ability to blend traditional software engineering practices with modern AI tooling—using automation, code generation, and conversational development to accelerate delivery without compromising architecture, reliability, or security.

What will you do? 

As a Backend Engineer on the Platform/Infra team, you’ll have a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the core services, infrastructure, and tools that enable all feature teams to build and scale their microservices reliably and efficiently. You should be passionate about operational excellence, performance optimization, and building robust, reusable components for internal engineers. You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from technical design, through coding and defining robust SLOs/SLIs, to deployment and monitoring of critical shared services. We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, providing the foundation for deploying to production dozens of times every day.

Join our village

HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Company share options plan

• We have a flexible hybrid working model

• Work from home allowance- to get your home office set up!

• Payment for sick leave from the first day

• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering

• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits

• Awesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme

• 10 bis or cibus/wolt- you get to pick!

• Transportation allowance

• Dog-friendly

• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)

• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)

• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
  

If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!